Rayanna had retired early to her room after dinner, just before James invited Antoinette outside. After they had gone out to the balcony, I followed them, and sat down in the couch right next to the balcony, ready to eavesdrop.
Cutler followed me. I sat down in a couch, and he stood right in front of me, glaring slightly. "Heather," he said, hands on his hips, "I know what you're doing, and it isn't right. James didn't eavesdrop on us when we shared our first kiss the night that we became engaged." I shifted uncomfortably. "Antoinette," Cutler said, going on, "Didn't watch when you, you know, became pregnant," He said, blushing. I looked down, and sighed. "Now Heather, I know that you care about the two of them, but they do need their privacy. Now why don't we retire for tonight and pick up where we left off at before Antoinette and Rayanna arrived?"
I grinned. "That sounds like a lovely idea. You go up. I will tell the maid to tell James and Antoinette that we have gone to bed when they come back in." Cutler nodded, and went upstairs to change, and I went to deliver the message to the maid.
James stood by the edge of the balcony looking over the same sea that he protected from pirates daily. The waves crashed against the boards of the house. Antoinette stood next to him, her heart fluttering. "Lovely night, isn't it, James?" She asked, quietly.
James nodded. Then there was silence. "Antoinette," he said in a nervous tone of voice, "I have the feeling that my sister has been trying to get us together tonight." Antoinette smiled, and said, "I share the feeling." James took a deep breath, and said, "I have been watching your actions tonight, Antoinette. And dare I must say that you have become quite more charming than you were the last time we met."
"You have too, James."
"Thank-you. I have decided that Miss Swann is not right for me. I want some one that will stand by my side as I fight pirates, not daydream about joining with them as they pillage and plunder. That woman is you." James took out a golden ring with a clear diamond in the middle of it. Antoinette looked at it and gasped, her heart fluttering even more. "I was saving this for the woman I love, which I thought was Elizabeth. But now I realize, that that woman is you."
"Are, are you proposing to me?" Antoinette stuttered.
"Indeed I am." James said.
"Well then," Antoinette said, letting James take her hand in his, "until death do us part." James smiled, took her left hand, and slid the ring onto her ring finger. Antoinette took her hand back slowly, and took a look at her ring. She grinned at it, and glanced back up at James, a sincere look in her eye. "Thank-you, James. You have truly made me the happiest woman ever." They both looked at each other for a second, before kissing with all the burning passion in their very hearts. They hugged each other closer to themselves, just breaking apart for about six seconds for air before kissing again.
When they finally broke apart, they were still hugging. James looked into Antoinettes eyes with a look of lust in his own. "I must take Felicity home, and then go back to the fort, my dear Antoinette."
Antoinette kissed his cheek, and said romantically, "I will be counting the seconds until you return." They slowly broke apart, and James went on his way, leaving Antoinette alone on the balcony with her feelings. She had never felt the feeling of true love and lust for anyone, but she was enjoying the feeling. She licked her lips, and savored the feeling of James' lips against her own.